• Onset of planetary wave breaking in a model of the polar stratospheric vortex 

  Wang, Xiaohong (2017-10-16)

  The breakdown of vertically propagating planetary waves in the stratosphere is investigated using an ultra-high horizontal resolution Contour Dynamics with Surgery model. In the model, planetary waves are forced at the ...
• Computational methods for domination problems 

  Bird, William Herbert (2017-10-04)

  For a graph G, the minimum dominating set problem is to find a minimum size set S of vertices of G such that every vertex is either in S or adjacent to a vertex in the set. The decision version of this problem, which asks ...
• On performance improvement of restricted bandwidth multimedia conferencing over packet switched networks 

  ElGebaly, Hani H. (2017-09-08)

  Advances in computer technology such as faster processors, better data compression schemes, and cheaper audio and video devices have made it possible to integrate multimedia into the computing environment. Desktop conferencing ...
• Global optimization using interval constraints 

  Chen, Huaimo (2017-08-30)

  Global optimization methods can be classified into two non-overlapping classes with respect to accuracy: those with guaranteed accuracy and those without. The former are called bounding methods, the latter point methods. ...
• Escalation prediction using feature engineering: addressing support ticket escalations within IBM’s ecosystem 

  Montgomery, Lloyd Robert Frank (2017-08-28)

  Large software organizations handle many customer support issues every day in the form of bug reports, feature requests, and general misunderstandings as submitted by customers. Strategies to gather, analyze, and negotiate ...
• A mathematical basis for medication prescriptions and adherence 

  Diemert, Simon (2017-08-25)

  Medication prescriptions constitute an important type of clinical intervention. Medication adherence is the degree to which a patient consumes their medication as agreed upon with a prescriber. Despite many years of research, ...
• Evaluation in built-in self-test 

  Zhang, Shujian (2017-08-21)

  This dissertation addresses two major issues associated with a built-in self-test environment: (1) how to measure whether a given test vector generator is suitable for testing faults with sequential behavior, and (2) how ...
• Efficient algorithms for discovering importance-based communities in large web-scale networks 

  Wei, Ran (2017-08-18)

  k-core is a notion capturing the cohesiveness of a subgraph in a social network graph. Most of the current research work only consider pure network graphs and neglect an important property of the nodes: influence. Li, Qin, ...
• Influential community discovery in massive social networks using a consumer-grade machine 

  Chen, Shu (2017-07-24)

  Graphs have become very crucial as they can represent a wide variety of systems in different areas. One interesting structure called community in graphs has attracted considerable attention from both academia and industry. ...
• Copula theory and its applications in computer networks 

  Dong, Fang (2017-07-12)

  Traffic modeling in computer networks has been researched for decades. A good model should reflect the features of real-world network traffic. With a good model, synthetic traffic data can be generated for experimental ...
• Specification and verification of communicating systems with value passing 

  Gurov, Dilian Borissov (2017-06-16)

  The present Thesis addresses the problem of specification and verification of communicating systems with value passing. We assume that such systems are described in the well-known Calculus of Communicating Systems, or ...
• Boolean and multiple-valued functions in combinational logic synthesis 

  Dubrova, Elena Vladimirovna (2017-06-14)

  The subject of this dissertation is the theory of Boolean and multiple-valued functions. The main areas considered are: functional completeness, canonical forms, minimization of functions, discrete differences and ...
• Finding obstructions within irreducible triangulations 

  Campbell, Russell J. (2017-06-01)

  The main results of this dissertation show evidence supporting the Successive Surface Scaffolding Conjecture. This is a new conjecture that, if true, guarantees the existence of all the wye-delta-order minimal obstructions ...
• Predicting likelihood of requirement implementation within the planned iteration 

  Dehghan, Ali (2017-05-31)

  There has been a significant interest in the estimation of time and effort in fixing defects among both software practitioners and researchers over the past two decades. However, most of the focus has been on prediction ...
• Chameleon, a dynamically extensible and configurable object-oriented operating system 

  Bryce, Robert William (2017-05-03)

  Currently, new algorithms are being incorporated into operating systems to deal with a host of new requirements from multimedia applications. These new algorithms deal with soft real-time scheduling, different memory ...
• Linear programming to determine molecular orientation at surfaces through vibrational spectroscopy 

  Chen, Fei (2017-05-03)

  Applying linear programming (LP) to spectroscopy techniques, such as IR, Raman and SFG, is a new approach to extract the molecular orientation information at surfaces. In Hung’s previous research, he has shown how applying ...
• Implicit representation of inscribed volumes 

  Sahbaei, Parto (2017-05-01)

  We present an implicit approach for constructing smooth isolated or interconnected 3-D inscribed volumes which can be employed for volumetric modeling of various kinds of spongy or porous structures, such as volcanic rocks, ...
• Characterizing the polyhedral graphs with positive combinatorial curvature 

  Oldridge, Paul Richard (2017-05-01)

  A polyhedral graph G is called PCC if every vertex of G has strictly positive combinatorial curvature and the graph is not a prism or antiprism. In this thesis it is shown that the maximum order of a 3-regular PCC graph ...
• A machine learning approach to fundraising success in higher education 

  Ye, Liang (2017-05-01)

  New donor acquisition and current donor promotion are the two major programs in fundraising for higher education, and developing proper targeting strategies plays an important role in the both programs. This thesis presents ...
• Forest aboveground biomass and carbon mapping with computational cloud 

  Guan, Aimin (2017-04-26)

  In the last decade, advances in sensor and computing technology are revolutionary. The latest-generation of hyperspectral and synthetic aperture radar ((SAR) instruments have increased their spectral, spatial, and temporal ...

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